A Letter from R. Nathan Kamenetsky
…of age. By that time he had already completed the 4 Sections of the Shulkhan ‘Arukh. In fact, when he arrived in Slabodka, he would look down upon a bachur…
Partnership Minyanim and More
…the fact that the Mishna Berurah quotes this approach in the name of Ramban, I cannot find this opinion anywhere in Nahmanides’ writings. An examination of the section of Shulhan Arukh where Mishna Berurah makes this…
Two Editions of R. Chaim Berlin’s Responsa: An Egregious Example of Censorship
…ודאין אין לו לסמוך על המקילין This is similar to the famous controversial pesak of the Aruch Hashulchan (O.C. 75:7): עתה בואו ונצווח על פרצות דורינו בעוונותינו הרבים שזה שנים…
R’ Orenstein, Author of the Yesuos Yaakov: The Controversy Over Publication of his Works
…noted Pnei Yehoshua on Shas), as well as R’ Shmuel HaLevi author of Turei Zahav on Shulchan Aruch [1](son-in-law of R’ Yoel Sirkes[2] the author of Bayis Chodosh on Tur)[3]….
Regarding Haftarah on Simchat Torah and the daily obligation to recite 100 blessings
…with the death of Moshe. The second topic of this post is regarding the obligation[18] to make 100 blessings every day. This is codified as halacha in the Shulchan Aruch[19]….
The Pew Report and the Orthodox Community (and Other Assorted Comments), part 2
…no guardian against unchastity,” אין אפוטרופוס לעריות. This principle is quoted by R. Joseph Karo in Shulhan Arukh, Even ha-Ezer 22:15.[3] Yet interestingly enough, in R. Karo’s Magid Meisharim[4] he…
Milah Books & Manuals
…the Orach Hashulchan (p.34) but R. Pirutinsky already points out that in his work Orach Hashulchan (Y.D. 264:19) that R. Epstein takes a different view than the one he expresses…
Nachmanides Introduced the Notion that Targum Onkelos Contains Derash
…Onkelos when reviewing the weekly Torah portion. Furthermore, by the time the Shulchan Arukh was composed in the sixteenth century and the Talmudic law was stated in it, most of…
Emek ha-Netziv : The Manuscript
…culture in the 1830s and 1840s. [1] In recent years, certain circles in the ultra-Orthodox community recommended that Moshe Dombey and N.T. Erline’s adaptation of Barukh Ha-Levi Epstein’s Mekor Barukh, entitled My Uncle the…
Mrs. Ethel Abrams – Ettel Ha’Ivriya of Clarksdale, Mississippi
…2017, I was researching the topic of using a flowing river as a Mikvah (see Rema to Shulchan Aruch YD 201:2, and Aruch Hashulchan YD 201:41-42). After Maariv one night,…
Aryeh A. Frimer Review of Daniel Sperber’s Darka shel Halakha
…Ketubot 103b, end of s.v. “Oto”; Or Zarua, Hilkhot Erev Shabbat, sec. 6; Penei Moshe; Vilna Gaon; R. David Pardo; Arukh haShulhan (Source 16); and others. (16) ערוך השולחן, יו”ד…
The Aderet (part 2); Sonya Diskin and R. Yitzhak Yeruham Diskin; Zvi Glatt; and a New Letter from R. Herzog
…started rebuking her husband. The Rav defended himself: “According to the Shulhan Arukh, this is OK.” To this, Mrs. Soloveitchik replied: “Your Shulhan Arukh is going to treif up my…
Comments on recent books by R. Benji Levy and R. Eitam Henkin; R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik; and the first color photographs of R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg.
…There are two se’ifim in the Shulhan Arukh that only contain two words. 2. There is one siman in the Shulhan Arukh whose number is the gematria of the subject…
When Rav Kook Was the Kana’i (Zealot) and His Opponent the Melits Yosher (Advocate)
…Menahot 37a; Maimonides, MT, Hil. Tefillin 4:1; Rabbi Joseph Karo, Shulhan ‘Arukh, Orah Hayyim 27:9. [5] m. Megillah 4:8. [6] Deuteronomy 6:8. [7] Shulhan ‘Arukh, Orah Hayyim 27:1. [8] In…
Crafting the Commandments
…rather than commands. Supporting these with scriptural proof texts, he labels them with the solo term mitsvah, a label that he also uses to designate rabbinical directives. The scriptural mitsvot…